![]() ![]() ![]() In a six-page “call to action” recently published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, 325 prominent doctors in this field wrote that “in recent years, we have observed an increasing prevalence of serious deficiencies in hospice care and high variability in quality of care.” Once a movement, hospice is now an industry dominated by publicly-traded companies and private equity firms, and it’s been the subject of critical government reports and withering exposes, including a New Yorker-ProPublica investigation of the “ for profit hustle.” Today, with half of all Americans dying in hospice care, some doctors believe its challenges are in urgent need of fixing. | John Moore/Getty ImagesĪ LITANY OF WRONGS - A number of years ago, when I had a fellowship to write about end of life care across the United States, a geriatrician in California told me, “There are no do-overs in death.”Ī group of prominent physicians who specialize in end of life care think it may be a do-over time for hospice. A terminally ill hospice resident sits with a music therapist in her bed in Lakewood, Colorado.
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